In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.