If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di