Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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.