Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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,

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.