Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.