The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.