Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Stability is not immobility

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…

We arethe prisoners of ideas.