No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!