Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

A language is like living skin itself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.