Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.