WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.