Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.