No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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.

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

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.