Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

What is well done is done soon enough.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.