All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

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.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.