The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A good conscience is the best divinity.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.