The hardeststep is over the threshold.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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 youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.