“United we stand Or divided, we will fall.”
Source: The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values
“I understood that there was a right and a wrong way to treat human beings, even those you thought of as your enemies. My American captors held no such values.”
Source: Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“If we have a blind spot, it's more likely to involve those values where Americans have long been agreed, not where we are politically polarized. When they go unchallenged across generations, areas of agreement gradually morph into "timeless" truths, timeless truths become truisms, truisms become bipartisan platitudes. By that point, all serious thought has died. The values in question may shape us profoundly, but they've become like the air that we breathe, as invisible to us as they are ever present. And we can never think carefully about values we cannot see.”
Source: We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
“Americans, for the most part, take themselves entirely too seriously. They rarely see the absurdity of the television shows that they watch, of the hilarious silliness of shopping malls, or the dizzying frivolity of the unending fashions invented and discarded by the market.”
Source: The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution
“If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.”
Source: Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom
“Raise your thoughts, not your fists.”
“Leaders approach conflict with an eye for resolution. When handled effectively, successful confrontations raise team performance. To manage conflict effectively, you must begin by recognizing there are three sides to every story:
Yours / Theirs / The Truth”
“[B]y not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative “death” of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.”
Source: Confronting Without Offending: Positive and Practical Steps to Resolving Conflict
“Focus on the good, and your life will rise to meet it. The deeper your commitment to positivity, the higher your quality of life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It's been my understanding that the basic fallacy for any conflict has to do with our intrinsic belief in who the Other is, rather than what He really is!”