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.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to