Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.