Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.