A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.