I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.