Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Ittakes time to save time.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.