Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.