There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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