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

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.