As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

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.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.