Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived