Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.