You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.