There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

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.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The comforter's head never aches.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.