If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.