The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.