Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.