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When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.