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

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

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.