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

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

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 man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e