Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.