To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

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

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.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.