A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

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.

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

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.