All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

The present is never a happy state to any being