Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.