Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

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.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.