I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.