A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

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.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.