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.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.