Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Ittakes time to save time.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.