Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.