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.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination