The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.