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

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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.