All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

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

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

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.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others