A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.