It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.