Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Power comes from sincere service

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.