Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.