A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.