To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it