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

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.

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.

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

We must arise and build the nation.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?