True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.