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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.