Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.