Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.