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

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.