Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.