Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

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.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.