Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

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.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.