We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.