Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.