Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

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.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.