Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

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

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.