Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.