A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Necessity truns lion into fox.

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

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.