Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.