Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.