Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.