I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

To teach isto learn twice.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Our power is in our ability to decide.