Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.