Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.