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

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.