Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.