The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.