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.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.