Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

God made time, but man made haste.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge