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

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

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.