Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Liberation is not deliverance.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

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.