Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

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.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical