Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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 numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.