The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.