Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.