Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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,

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Neversay more than is necessary.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.