Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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,

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist