All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.