Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.