Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for 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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

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

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.