Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.