Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.