Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.