Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.

Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

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

If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Love and lust are both four letter words that start with L, but they don’t appear in the dictionary side by side so we shouldn’t have to think they go hand in hand in life.

Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises.

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.