Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

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

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.