Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Genius is a long impatience.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.