It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing