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

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.