I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.