Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nevercut what you can untie.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.