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

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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