If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Every advantage has its tax

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.