Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp