Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.