Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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…

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.