Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

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.

He understands badly who listens badly.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.