Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.