Instinct is the nose of the mind.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.