It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.