Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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,

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.