If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.