Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

... 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

Thehardest step is over the threshold.