Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.