Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.