The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Ittakes time to save time.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.