Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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,

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.