Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

The present is never a happy state to any being

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.