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.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.