An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.