Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.