A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

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.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

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.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.