The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.