Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.