You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.Neil deGrasse Tyson
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.Sun Tzu
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.Sun Tzu
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.Sun Tzu
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.Rabindranath Tagore
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.Salman Rushdie