If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.