“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
“Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.”
“All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.”
“Absences can also make one forget. Absence dulls the memory and banishes those who are precious from the mind.”
“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”