Use softwords and hard arguments.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.