Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

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

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges