Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

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.