Patience is the art of hoping.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

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.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war