Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.