The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.