Necessity truns lion into fox.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

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

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.