We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.