Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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