Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares