Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.