Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.