Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.