It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.