Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

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.