When weblame, we give away our power.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.