Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Our distrust is very expensive.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.