Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.