Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

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

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.