Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Thereare two sides to every question.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.