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

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.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.