Conflict is not possible without communication.

Conflict is avoided most on account of mutual respect.

Conflict is inevitable but not necessarily bad.

Conflict is the force that drives a theatrical writer.

Decision is unavoidable. Even to hesitate, one has to decide.

Decision is the eternal protest against fictions.

A Decision is a decision because it can never be wholly justified.

The Decision is a moment equal to a moment of madness.

Example is difficult — It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.

Example is powerful — as they say, example has more followers than reason.

Example is often a mirror that deceives.

Example is more efficacious than precept.

Influence is inherent in everything — Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Influence is important to character — Amongst the honorable a man becomes honorable ; amongst the base, base.

Influence is most successful when grounded in kindness — you cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Influence is a kind of immortality — a man lives as long as there are those who bear the stamp of his influence.