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If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.