I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

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

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Faith is continuation of reason.