A bad workman never gets a good tool.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.