If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

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.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.