Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.