Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.