No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

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

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Habit: the shackles of the free

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.