It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

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.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.