Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

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

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

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.