Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.