Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

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 greatharmony.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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.

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.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.