Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.