Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived