If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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.