Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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

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

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.