Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!