Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.