It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

A room without books is a body without soul

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character