Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned