One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A language is like living skin itself.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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.

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