Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

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.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.