If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.