No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.