A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.