No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The comforter's head never aches.

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.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Pleasant words are the food of love.