It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

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

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.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

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.