Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

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.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.