Ittakes time to save time.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.