Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The first duty of love is to listen.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.