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.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Power comes from sincere service

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.