A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.