Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

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.