The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.