Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.