Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.