Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Faith is continuation of reason.

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.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.