Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.