Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

God has created the world in play.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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 leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it