Nevermistake silence for agreement.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.