It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.