We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

A room without books is a body without soul

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou