Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.