If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him