Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.