A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable