A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Our power is in our ability to decide.