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,

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Those who trust us educate us.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.