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

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.