Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.