An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.