Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e