As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.