Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.