To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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.