Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

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 possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.