Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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,

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Compromise.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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.