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

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Our distrust is very expensive.