Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho