The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.