Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.