A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.