All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.