No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.