Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.