Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

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

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.