An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

When weblame, we give away our power.