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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much