Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.