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.

A language is like living skin itself.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They