Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.