Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.