Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom