Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.