Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.