Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

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

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.