Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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

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.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.