If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.