When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.