A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?