If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.