A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.