There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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.