Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

The comforter's head never aches.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.