Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.