Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

There is no knowledge that is not power.