Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!