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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.