He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Neversay more than is necessary.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.