Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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.