Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen