Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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…

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.