The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.