It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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…

You made your bed, now lie in it.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

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.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.