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.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

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.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.