If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Inspiration comes of working every day.