To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

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

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.