Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.