Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

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.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.