A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

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.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.