Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

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