Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.