Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.