Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.