Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.