The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

No strength within, no respect without.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.