There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.