Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.