Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

To teach isto learn twice.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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