One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.