Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.