you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.