Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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,

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.