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.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.