Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

The property of power is to protect.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.