Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

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

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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