Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

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.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.