The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

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.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.