We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.