Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.