Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

Ideas are incestuous.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

A lot depends on the starting point.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

You are important to me, because i thought so.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.