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.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

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