Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

God made time, but man made haste.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.