Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.