Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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.

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

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.