When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,