A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

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 fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Neversay more than is necessary.