A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.