Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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…

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.