Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

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

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.