Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

They know enough who know how to learn.