Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The property of power is to protect.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.