Habit: the shackles of the free

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

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

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people