Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

The greatest prayer is patience.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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.