The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

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

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.