It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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.