Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.