Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

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

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.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.