When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.