Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.