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

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

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.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.