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

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

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

He understands badly who listens badly.

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

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

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.