In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

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.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

A language is like living skin itself.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.