Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.