Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.