Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.