Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Stability is not immobility

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.