If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.