To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.