Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.