The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.