Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

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,

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.