Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

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

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.