Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.