Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,