You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

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.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour