Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

They know enough who know how to learn.