It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Every advantage has its tax

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

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.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.