Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.