I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.