Those who trust us educate us.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

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

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.