The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.