If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Stability is not immobility

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

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.

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