Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

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