If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.