Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.