The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.