The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.