If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

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.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.