Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

What isthe shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback isone of the essential elements of good communication.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.