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

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

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Ittakes time to save time.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.