Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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.

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

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.