Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.