Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

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

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

If youare 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.