If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.