The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...