Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

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

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.