If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.