If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.