The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

The first duty of love is to listen.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.