Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

As long as there is life there is danger.

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

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.