Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.