Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.