It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

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

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

Renown and repose do not go together.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.