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

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.