All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A half truth is a whole lie.