Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.