Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses