A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.