Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.