Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

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

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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