Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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