Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.