There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.