Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.