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

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.