Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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.