Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

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

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

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.