In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.