Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

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

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.