Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

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!

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Outside noisy, inside empty.