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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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

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.

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

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?