To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.