Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

God has created the world in play.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.