Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.