Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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 wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.