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.

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.