Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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 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.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.