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

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.