Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

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

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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…

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist