Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

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.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.