No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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.

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

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,