Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.