If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.