Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.