Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Ittakes time to save time.