I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.