Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.