Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.