You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Genius is a long impatience.

No strength within, no respect without.