You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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.