Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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.