Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.