One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

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

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.