It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

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.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.