Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.