There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government