Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They