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

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

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

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.

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.

You're never too old to be young.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

Know this: you can start over, each morning.