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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The comforter's head never aches.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.