If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.