If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

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

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.