Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.