Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.