You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.