Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

No strength within, no respect without.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

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.