Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.