Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

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.

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

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.