Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them