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

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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 pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.