Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.