A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.