Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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.

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.