Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.