Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

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,

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

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.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.