You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.