Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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.