Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

You made your bed, now lie in it.