Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.