The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

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.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.