It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.