Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.