Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Discord gives a relish to concord.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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