Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.