If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.