You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.