It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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