Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.