Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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 comes from sincere service

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.