Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

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.

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

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.