Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

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.

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.

Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that - it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?" Rose: "Because I'm her guardian."

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.