Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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,

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.