Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Liberation is not deliverance.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.