Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

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.