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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Example is better than following it.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.