Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Genius is a long impatience.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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.

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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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