Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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

Only few men think, but all have opinions.