It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

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.

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.

This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.