Our distrust is very expensive.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.