Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

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

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

He whoangers you, conquers you.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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