It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.