Our distrust is very expensive.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.