Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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

You made your bed, now lie in it.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.