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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.