Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

To teach isto learn twice.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.