I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

When weblame, we give away our power.