Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

You can't unscramble an egg.

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.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.