If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Well done is better than well said.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.