If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.