The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

The property of power is to protect.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved