Original: Avere la capacità di comunicare sempre agli altri ciò che si pensa, significa offrire loro una vera opportunità di fiducia.
Source: prevale.net
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
Jean Vanier, From Brokenness to Community, 1992, pp 35-36
From books
Speech at Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, March 4, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_03_04fairmont.htm.
2000
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), p. 121
The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)
Context: The final stage of life... offers us the opportunity to detach from competitive, high-consumption priorities... At that point, life itself—the opportunity it offers for growth, for intellectual adventure, for the simple joys of love and companionship, for working out our salvation—comes to be seen as our highest value.... That is what I have always assumed it means to be countercultural.
“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
Aug 2009, http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Davies-Forest-sign-players/article-715858-detail/article.html?logout=true.
“Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) compiled by Laurence J. Peter, p. 100
