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,

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.