Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.