A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.