Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.