Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

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

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.