Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Compromise.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.

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