Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.