The comforter's head never aches.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The property of power is to protect.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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