Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.