Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.