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

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.