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.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.