People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Our distrust is very expensive.