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

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Patience is the art of hoping.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.