No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Stability is not immobility

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

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