Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.