Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.