Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Stability is not immobility

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.