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

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.