Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Thereare two sides to every question.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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.