Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.