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.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.