Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

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.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.