Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.