The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

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.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.