Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.