Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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