Use softwords and hard arguments.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind