It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.