Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

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

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.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.