It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

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