Nostrength within, no respect without.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

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.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.