Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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.

A language is like living skin itself.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?