Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.