The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.