Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.