Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Stability is not immobility

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

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

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.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.