Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.