It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.