Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!