We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

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.