Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

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

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.