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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.