I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it