It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Ifyou are 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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses