Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.