Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

To beprepared is half the victory.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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.