COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He understands badly who listens badly.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

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

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.