The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

A room without books is a body without soul

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.