If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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.

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,

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

No strength within, no respect without.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.