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

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

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

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

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

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

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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.