Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

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.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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