Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

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

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.