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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

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

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.