There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

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