Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

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.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.