Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.