Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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.

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

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.