An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.