A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines 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.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.