The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

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.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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.