Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

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,

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.