Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.