The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.