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

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.