Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.