The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.