Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.