Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.