Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.