Patience is the art of hoping.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

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 we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.