Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

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.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.