Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.