If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.