Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.