Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

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.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.