Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

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.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...