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.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.